Environment committee  We have developed a multi-source way of dealing with this. When you're dealing with Lake Winnipeg it's quite different from dealing with, for example, Lake Erie in the seventies, where there were two points: largely, the two points were laundry detergent and waste water treatment

Environment committee  If I could let folks know, there is an English version of this report on the Government of Manitoba, Department of Water Stewardship site, and they're welcome to it.

Environment committee  The monitoring, yes. The control we'd like to have more of, but again in a cooperative way. Contrary to a lot of the headlines you might read, there is a lot of cooperation between Manitoba and the states just south of us. So I think we need to continue to build on that.

Environment committee  The situation with the dishwasher is that Edmonton is part of the Lake Winnipeg basin, so there isn't an interbasin transfer. I think you're referring to the situation happening now with Devils Lake in North Dakota, where they began to pump water out of Devils Lake into the Sheye

Environment committee  Okay. That's more of a technical question, and I'll ask Dwight Williamson, who is our executive director of water resources in the department of water stewardship, to respond to you.

Environment committee  I think we have to work collectively on this. We have consumers. We have producers. What we don't want to do is throw an industry into shock. I think we can establish limitations, we can establish reductions, we can establish a clear path that will see real results. I'm very en

Environment committee  This summer we'll be having an education campaign on that reduction. We will begin consultations in the fall on cosmetic fertilizers as well as household products. To my knowledge, we don't have regulation in Manitoba, other than in Brandon. I have had a very positive discussio

Environment committee  First, I'd like to thank the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development for allowing me to appear this morning. It's a very important issue, of course, that you are referring to today. I have brought with me a copy of the final report of the Lake Winnipeg Ste